I thought this passage of Theo Hobson’s was awesome. What’s wrong with celebrating the pleasure of sex, the excitement of it? Such celebration shares in the dishonesty of pornography. It lacks proper context. It forgets to say that this activity is as serious as life itself. By isolating it from the rest of life, it…

We were super tired by the time we got there and stood in line for an hour, so we were chillin’ in a quieter outside area and talking to a space cadet girl on ecstasy who was super nice. I ran into people from high school that I never expected, doing a tour of the…

Last night I watched How to Dance in Ohio. For this post, I’m going to watch it again and write a running commentary. I recommend watching the movie and not sharing the politics of the movie. I think it’s telling that the Aspen Institute had a panel discussion about the movie with the head of…

Mel Baggs has done the world a favor by writing a comprehensive explanation of what’s wrong with the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” and the Sally-Anne Test, i.e., the reason we’re told autistic people lack empathy, theory of mind, the ability to read body language, etc. Stylistically, I did notice that it’s very long,…

Liberals, progressives, the readers of Mother Jones, are often useless to me as “allies” because they can’t identify racism when it’s screaming “Nigger!” in their face. See a true comrade for contrast. In Mother Jones, Rick Perlstein just published an article called Peter’s Choice. That article itself is a commentary on a college student’s history…

As soon as I found out about Daniel Everett and an Amazonian tribe called the Pirahã, I knew that I had to read his book (Don’t sleep, there are snakes). These videos illustrate why. Their language alone is fascinating: So are other aspects of their culture: Here are some excerpts from Everett’s book: For their…

Nowadays, we explain transgenerational trauma with epigenetics. I like the fanciful, unscientific explanation from psychoanalysis: the parents’ unresolved trauma is passed on from their unconscious to the unconscious of their children. This blog has been a lot about my Holocaust issues. I really didn’t like how Rachel Marie Stone was dealing with hers in the…